Leave it to me to take make a 4 minute Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail trailer into a 30 minute video…. but I said it during fan fest, I said it during past live letters:
WHAT IS THIS EXPANSION?!?
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Having defeated the despair of the Final Days, the Warrior of Light and their comrades had resumed walking their respective paths. Yet fate would see them reunited for a mission unto another reflection, and now an unexpected petition has arrived beckoning them west─to the faraway continent of Tural.
Answer the call, seek new horizons, and embark upon an adventure the likes of which you have never experienced! Dawntrail sees the stage of adventure shift to the western continent of Tural. In this land whence the legend of the golden city originates, the rite of succession will soon take place, and your involvement may well determine who next rules the diverse peoples of the nation of Tuliyollal…
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Chapters
00:00 – Some Sort of Intro
01:24 – First Time Watching Launch Trailer
05:10 – Initial Reaction
06:22 – THE DEEP DIVE
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I've been trying so hard to bite my lip when people look at Solution 9 and think Ascians or Allagans because they're constantly forgetting the other eras' legacies.
Pure speculation coment here, but: I think the other scions are making it for a dungeon boss or two. To test if they are strong enough to face the hardships of the adventure.
My guess on the blue Mamool Ja guy with the feathered headress is that he is the 'humanoid' form of Valigarmanda and works as a protector.
In the live letter they said Vali had another form and quickly moved away from the fight to not show it.
They say never ageing, never dyeing. It is very possible that we might link back to The Fountain of Youth or Solution Nine is AI stuff. Which could link us to going east to find the fountain of youth or where ever the chalice came from. I also think the mysterious girl might be related to one of the Metione sisters, because they sound so much alike. I don't remember how many there was, but wasn't there at least nine of them? Solution Nine? Could it have been the Ninth Solution of what to live for? Maybe because she seems to be so interested in the WoL, it is because we had some sort of special connection with Metione via dynamis.
Same call as in January: the campaign for the new dawn serpent is actually a day to keep the big bad at bay and will require a sacrifice every x time = new leader is elected and thus the knowledge of it is passed on. However something will go wrong because the two final sides have 2 different ways to dealing with the situation in golden city. Tuliyolal vs Solution 9 people, cowboys vs indians. But in the end they will have to work together agaisnt the big bad.
I just got the pre-order so I can start early. NOW my excitement has kicked in! FFXIV is the only game I have ever pre ordered in my life.
Wanna point out that the girl looks like Ashelia from FFXII
Live letter reaction Jesse where is it my vampire thirst needs it 😂😊
7:25 I thought the same thing. Plus at this point Graha being out of the game is about as likely as an expansion not featuring Y'shtola at all. They know their fans too well.
If i learned something from the past Launch Trailers its that Square loves to place so many Red Herrings in their Trailers. The Endwalker trailer for example… so many thought Alphinaud was about to be sacrificed. Or that one Scion has to die. (Thancred was the obvious call…)
This expansion screams 'filler episode' and … Im kinda here for it.
He seems pretty excited
I was hyped for Dragonflight being just an adventure and I’m equally as hyped about Dawntrail being a straight-up adventure.
Jesse whipping out the lorebook is when you know shit is about to get real.
your question , at 14:00 about Estinien, can be resolved at the end of the EW MSQ. Why does he is there.
Y'shtola has been in the CG trailer as on the island, so there's something going on with her that the devs are wanting to keep mega secret for some reason. My assumption is she's going to be on the Urianger/Thancred crew but has some other interest in mind. She also shows up in the montage at the end so she's part of the story somewhere.
edit: Oh and Y'shtola is there at the yellow gate with everyone
edit: There you go lol
I elect we call the buff cactaur Jackedtaur.
The "Enigmatic Maiden" has Pashtarot's sigil on her waist. Her quote at the end of the trailer is also similar enough to Pashtarot's convocation crystal quote that I don't think it's a coincidence.
Considering we also got Azeyma's earrings, which yes, Azeyma, goddess of the sun, representing Dawn, but also Azeyma is the goddess that oversees law and order… as does Pashtarot
yeah Pashtarot was a guy in 2.3 but given they never actually appeared in person to us, that can be safely considered either retconnable or she hopped to a feminine body. Or she transed her gender. We know that Mitron is at the very least somewhat trans coded, using she/her pronouns but being in a guy's body in Eden. It's not unheard of.
My going prediction is that the techno people are remnants of the shard rejoined by the Second Umbral Calamity. A technologically advanced culture that digitized themselves with Solution 9, named as their ninth and final attempt at surviving the coming apocalypse. From that point, they were integrated into the Source and pulling the strings of the Tural royalty, finally making their move now that all super-advanced competition (Garlemald, Allag, Ascians, etc) are all gone.
I loved the theory about the lightning calamity, but wasn't that the haze of the final days around the second lalafel that ran through the portal? Possibly a pre-sundering relic that insulated them from time?
I'd like to submit "Swole-tender" as our nickname for the new barreltenders
Now, this song is getting my hype unlike other trailers and videos.
I got that vibe too. The mysterious maiden seems to be asking us if we could have done better than her or her society.
People really gotta stop prolonging Runar's suffering by pretending he didn't get rejected by Y'shtola firmly but kindly.
I'm already sick of the music used in this lol
I was half expecting the Yamato to show up to fight the purple carrier .
Hey, do you remember when you played the pools demo the full game released you should play it. It's great to me personally, but it's funny. It would be fun to see you play
that voice acting at 3:41… i’m actually so hype for this expansion. i wasn’t expecting much from dawntrail at first but god damn the preview to solution 9 in this trailer is so amazing
Jesse you do know you can advance a video by one frame with the < and > keys, you dont need to constantly pause and unpause to get that one frame you want.
So we think Wuk Lamat gets us, Krile, Graha and the twins, while the catboy gets Yshtola, Uriangier and Thancred?
Derplander's gotta derp. There's no stopping him.
FYI Jesse you can use the < and > keys to seek through YouTube videos one frame at a time. This makes it very easy to pause and look at something specific.
I'm interested in why in both shots of the woman at 4:33 and 5:13 we never see the top of her head? I assume she might have, like, Viera ears or another feature that would be significant so they keep it out of frame?
Watching this makes me want to play 14 again but I got as far as stormblood and feel there’s so much to catch up on now! It looks so fun
Cactuar? More like JACKED-uar!
13:20 My vote is for "Jackedtuar".
in all fairness, he was known as Tritoch in the SNES version of FF VI. most likely a mistranslation, but still…i'm very interested in seeing how we get to that fight regardless
Emotional support cats confirmed. Thank you.
One of the S9 related dungeons had a Graha trust you can barely see him 24:15, so it's safe to assume he makes it halfway in the MSQ. Think the city of gold will be the pandora's box and causes the invasion, which we would need to stop.
Based on the letter that the dad team gets, aren't they running with the catboy because he's essentially their university batchmate? I'm gonna presume that Y'shtola will be part of their team as well since they were the trio eating and drinking in EW.